Tim Vermande

Sapir – Whorf (1929)

Sapir – Whorf•Language use creates “socio-linguistic rules.”•What is this stuff?

Sapir – Whorf•Language use creates “socio-linguistic rules.”• Language shapes different views of the world through connotation: example of “lawn” or “pop.”

Idioms

• “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times!”

• Disability etiquette tells us it’s ok to say things like “see you later.”

Idioms

• “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times!”

• Disability etiquette tells us it’s ok to say things like “see you later.”

• What do we really mean? “I’ve repeated myself a lot,” and “I hope to be with you again.”

Philo

c. 25 BCE – c. 50 CE

.… as if suddenly awakening from a deep slumber and opening the eye of the soul, and beginning to perceive a pure ray of light instead of profound darkness, followed the light ….

Plutarch

c. 46 – c. 127 C.E.

And now, as if they were dreaming of God the most glorious dream, let us stir up and exhort them to ascend higher ….

could you not stay awake with me one hour?

Matthew 26.40

Let us not fall asleep, but let us keep awake…

1 Thessalonians 5.6-8

"but just as you may see a man wander at times from his path when he falls asleep, and retrace his steps at once on waking, so also it is with the sinner who falls asleep in mortal sin . . . ."

The best metaphors use

“primal terms accessible to every

human soul.”Madeleine Marshall

Marjorie Procter-Smith says patriarchy is such an overarching part of the world that we view nearly everything in patriarchal terms. Therefore we must move beyond explicit balance to "emancipatory language" that challenges assumptions. As the quote from Marshall shows, the same condition exists with bodily images. What is the possibility of creating truly emancipatory bodily images?

(Marjorie Procter-Smith, In Her Own Rite: Constructing Feminist Liturgical

Tradition, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990, 14-15, 64-66).